Senior Motion Designer
Job Summary
Job Description
- Craft satisfying and delightful product features and mechanics across the Duolingo app
- Identify and tackle ambitious interactive and visual design problems
- Collaborate closely across Design, Product, Creative Technology, and Engineering teams
- Build, own, and maintain documentation of animation specs
- Contribute to the impact and culture of the motion design discipline
- Experience working on both in-house teams and in a studio/agency
- Experience writing specs and collaborating with engineers to implement animation to product
- Experience in animating and rigging interactions in Rive
4 skills required
Job Details
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and even though we've made a lot of headway, we still have work to do — and that’s where you come in!
Duolingo’s designers care about creating high-quality experiences that look and feel fun. From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you’ll join a culture of creativity and craft, where we have a high bar for excellence and an endless curiosity about how to bring more unexpected quirk and fun to the pursuit of learning.
Join us in our mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
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About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Motion Designer with expertise in playful interactions and immersive product experiences. You’ll contribute to creative projects that bring delight and function to the Duolingo learning experience through UX Motion, Interaction Design, and Motion Graphics. This role sits within Design Studio, the creative team that brings Duolingo’s world to life through motion, characters, and sound.
You will...
- Craft satisfying and delightful product features and mechanics across the Duolingo app
- Identify and tackle ambitious interactive and visual design problems
- Collaborate closely across Design, Product, Creative Technology, and Engineering teams
- Build, own, and maintain documentation of animation specs
- Contribute to the impact and culture of the motion design discipline
You have...
- A broad portfolio of professional work showcasing animation craft and technical expertise
- 5 years of experience in motion design, preferably for digital products
- A strong foundation in After Effects, with interest or experience in Figma, Rive, and AI tooling
- Proven ability to thrive in small, fast-paced teams and champion your work to teammates and leadership
- A highly organized and iterative creative process
- The ability to work in or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA, Detroit, MI, or New York, NY
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Experience working on both in-house teams and in a studio/agency
- Experience writing specs and collaborating with engineers to implement animation to product
- Experience in animating and rigging interactions in Rive
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About The Company
Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.
Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.
Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.
Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated.
With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all.
Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.
Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).
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